• Country/entity

  Colombia
  

• Region

  Americas
  

• Agreement name

  Declaración del Gobierno y la CGSB, Primera Ronda de Conversaciones (The Caracas Agenda)

• Date

  6 Jun 1991

• Agreement status

  Multiparty signed/agreed

• Interim arrangement

  Yes

• Agreement/conflict level

  Intrastate/intrastate conflict ()

• Stage

  Pre-negotiation/process

• Conflict nature

  Government

• Peace process

  Colombia I - Gaviria

• Parties

  National Govt, Simon Bolivar Guerilla Coordination Body (CGSB)

• Third parties

  observers: list of names

• Description

  Agreed a preliminary agenda for the peace process: formula for cessation of hostilities, relationship between this process and the National Constituent Assembly, initiatives against paramilitary groups, human rights, political participation of armed groups, economic issues, democratization, design of the peace process (incl. verification). SM: The document lists the points on the agenda. It is a meeting re-establishing mutual trust, identifying and dealing with the consequences and issues affecting civilians to establish credibility of the peace process, finding a political solution and dealing with the causes of the conflict, both sides announce the topics they want to see covered in the negotiations. These topics are: considering the possibility of a ceasefire, the relationship between National Assembly, public services, social sectors and political organisations, action against paramilitaries and private security and their impunity, human rights and the rights of ethnic minorities, the state, democracy and political partiality, development of national sovereignty, international relations, trade relations and natural resource management, political, social and economic democratisation, the draft of a transition phase, observers, procedures and rules for the process and agreements. Source: Acuerdos con el EPL, MAQL y CRS, Diálogos con la CGSB, Biblioteca de la Paz – 1990-1994, Fundación Cultura Democrática, Ed. Álvaro Villarraga Sarmiento, Bogotá D.C., 2009 (book III) p. 254

• Agreement document

  CO_910606_The Caracas Agenda -tr.pdf | Download PDF

Groups

Gender

State definition

Governance

Power sharing

Human rights and equality

Rights related issues

Rights institutions

Justice sector reform

Socio-economic reconstruction

Land, property and environment

Security sector

Transitional justice

Implementation

THE CARACAS AGENDA

6 June 1991

The national government and the Simon Bolivar Guerrilla Coordination Body (CGSB), as the result of the discussions held in Caracas on 4 and 5 of June, declare that:

I. Both the meeting at Cravo Norte and the mechanisms adopted by the government and the guerrillas in order to achieve the presence of the delegates of the CGSB in Caracas constitute significant steps in the reestablishment of mutual trust, the essential ingredient for the continuity of the peace process.

II. The credibility of the peace process in the country must be built on the specific actions and conduct of the government and the Coordinator which must contribute to the reduction of violence, in particular those aspects of the confrontation that affect the civilian population.

The specific identification of these aspects should be worked on in the following days.

III. The government and the Coordinator must confirm that the objectives of the peace process must address as much the definitive solution of the political armed conflict as the generation of policies which aim at definitive eradication the causes that have generated the conflict, keeping in mind the needs of all Colombians, so as to assure their democratic cohabitation and the search for a society which incorporates social justice.

IV. After the government and the guerrillas have presented their conceptualization of the peace process and the fundamental elements it constitutes, it has been agreed upon to announce a package of issues constituting a preliminary agenda that will both allow for the continuation the discussions of Caracas and place the peace process in a general perspective in order to be developed in the future.

It is understood that the issues annunciated below are to be defined in the talks taking place in the following days focusing on their treatment and the details of their content and parameters.

V. The following are the issues selected for discussion, some of which imply bilateral commitments, and are arranged in order of priority for examination:

1. Examine the possibility of agreeing between the government and the Coordinator a formula for a ceasefire and cessation of hostilities.

2. The relationship between this process and the National Constituent Assembly, public corporations, political organizations and social sectors.

3. Initiatives against ‘paramilitary’ and private justice groups.

Effective initiatives against impunity.

Concepts on the doctrine of national security.

4. Human rights.

The rights of ethnic minorities.

5. The State, democracy and the conditions for political participation of armed groups.

6. Factors that contribute to the development of national sovereignty, such as the management of natural resources and elements from international agreements that relate to this process, and international economic policy.

7. Ingredients for the democratization of economic and social policy.

8. The design of a process that will permit the development of a phase for the reaching of agreements and practical measures in order to bring about the definite resolution of the armed conflict in Colombia and guarantee the exercise of political activity without the use of arms within the framework of the civic and democratic life of the country, once the requisites for this have been satisfied.

9. Verification of the peace process.

10. Methodology, procedures and regulations of the negotiations and the accords.

VI. The government and the Coordinator convene the media and shapers of public opinion to evaluate, with their usual consideration, the content of this declaration, as well as the issues that have been included with only the purpose of later discussion, the focuses, the achievements and the possibility of these.

On behalf of the government:

JESUS ANTONIO BEJARANO

A. Presidential Adviser

ANDRES GONZALEZ D.

Vice-Minister for the Interior

CARLOS EDUARDO JARAMILLO C.

Adviser to the Peace Council

HUMBERTO VERGARA P.

Adviser to the Peace Council

TOMAS CONCHA S.

Adviser to the Peace Council

REYNALDO GARYP.

Adviser to the Commission

On behalf of the Simon Bolivar Guerrilla Coordination Body

ALFONSO CANO (FARC), TVAN MARQUEZ (FARC), PABLO CATATUMBO (FARC), HUMBERTO ZULANGA (FARC), DANIEL ALDANA (FARC), MIGUEL SUAREZ (FARC), ANDRES PARIS (FARC), FRANCISCO GALAN (ELN), LUCIA GONZALEZ (ELN), DIEGO RUIZ (EPL), ASDRUBAL JIMENEZ (EPL)

Observers present MIGUEL MOTTA C„ RAFAEL SERRANO P., MARIA CRISTINA OCAMPO, HENRY MILLAN, WILLIAM RAMIREZ, OSCAR REYES, JESUS CARVAJAL, ALVARO VASQUEZ, HERNAN MOTTA, NELSON BERRIO

Caracas, 6 June 1991